Replacement of Qari Zainuddin in Waziristan
By Maria Sultan • Jun 26th, 2009 • Category: Politics • 2 CommentsRegarding the war against terror, somewhere, it has been aptly observed: “Just as our present is the result of our past, so our future will be the result of our present.” Blood is on the road ahead. Terrorists are not sparing anyone, and they are out there to kill. They know that they are hated by everyone now in Afghanistan and Pakistan and even in their own sanctuaries in the FATA and Swat areas, and so they are ready to go to any extent to hang on to their evil designs.
Just to repeat the blunder of the past, our establishment tried to prop up a weaker ling like Qari Zainuddin Mehsud against the Baitullah Mehsud, who is the current Frankenstein in the war against terror. Garnering and showing off the support of Qari Zain was a lousy show to depict that the local population was with the security forces against Baitullah and there were fissures among the Taliban.
The fact is that Qari Zain doesn’t represent the Mehsud or Wazirzai or any other tribe in the Waziristan agency. Local people hate all types of terrorists and for them Baitullah and Qari Zain are of same breed. Once Baitullah was also a puppet of the establishment against the father of Qari Zain, and then history took a grim turn, and Qari Zain became puppet of establishment to avenge his father’s assassinatin by the hands of Baitullah.
It would be prudent for us, if we dont once again go and try to find another Mehsud terrorist against Baitullah. Our security forces should break the back of the Baitullah through as much fire as possible and try to use its fat intelligence agencies to infiltrate in the areas to strike at the core of militants. Militants should be cornered, while local population should be saved and facilitated. America should be asked to make sure that Taliban from across the border don’t spill into Pakistan to aide the TTP.
Enough of the blunders.
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You are right
We have taken this policy from our previous calonial rulers. We are using this since 1947 in Balouchistan, NWFP and even in Sindh.
Wiping out the corrupt ones with your corrupts. All they want is loyality to you, rest it doesn’t matter what these corrupts do with the masses of that area.
Corrupt is dead, long live the corrupt!!!!!!!!
Indeed I agree instead of propping up monster to counter another, government should use the Army to squash for once and all the B.M gang, albeit saying that I really wish the whole situation is that simple. B.M is very strong regardless if we accept it or not and allies at ground against B.M are needed be it any form. It took almost a year for army and ISI to prepare Zain and his militia, which have been active against TTP for pat few months, they have been at war with each other for some time as Zain had a history and score to settle with B.M, by the way Zain was also a Mehsud. It is only now actually media have started to give exposure to them (there are others as well). Loss of Zain is a huge tactical loss to the Pakistanis and huge relief for B.M as he have stated to his close aides about him being more worried about enemies from with in rather then that about Pakistan Government or army on his tail. Poison is the only weapon against poison, plain and simple.
Yes the locals hate B.M and his band of thugs but they do not have any choice, people are only skeptic of governments sincerity in eliminating B.M and you cant blame them. In the last operation against him over 300 of Khans who helped government were all murdered after a deal was made B.M, so who in there right mind would trust government there. But as this time it seems it has been decided to eliminate B.M for once and all people will stand against him and it is only a matter of time. BUT there is one very important question which needs to be answered and that is why such entities have been allowed to grow and expand, as rightly said by Tariq Ali in his book “The Duel”, it is the short visioned elite of Pakistan which have lead to all this mess we see in Pakistan today. I completely agree.